History
- 1964 DKFZ was founded
- 1977 DKFZ joined the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2001 DKFZ joined the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF)
- 2003 The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg was set up
- 2007 Alliance of DKFZ and the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH)
- 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Professor Harald zur Hausen